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Oct. 15, 1929. G s c uss 1,731,550

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INVENTOR A TTORNE Y Oct. 15, 1929.

E. G. STRECKFUSS 1,731,550

TIME RECORDER Filed Nov. 29, 1924 A TTORNE Y5 1929. E. G. sTREcKFuss 1,

TIME RECORDER Filed Nov. 29, 1924 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 INVENTOI? ATTORNEYSOct. 15, 1929. E, s c uss 1,731,550

TIME REC/ORDER Filed NOV. 29, 1924. 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 2 :4 t3 Z5 /6 m l mWAN gt MMJ Z Z A TTORNE Y5 Patented Oct. 15, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE man G. s'raEcn-uss, or cmcnma'rr, omo, ,Assmnon To T cmcmnn mmomma courm, or cmcrmmrx, 01110, A conrom or one TIME RECORDERApplication'flled November as, 1924. Serial F0. 152,955.

M invention relates to time recorders, and particularly to the workmanstime card type. It is the main object to provide a time card printingregister which is completely automatic, requiring no manipulation on thepart of the operator except to insert his card, and

' pull down the printing lever.

It is my object to employ a card tray with an-automatic time operatedlateral shift, for

accomplishing one of the locating operations for the time printing 0eration, and to provide a card punching e ement for the other locatingoperation.

A particular feature of my invention lies in the card punchingarrangement, wherein the punching is so controlled that the card is onlycut away in a very limited portion,

thereby leaving sufiicient strength in the card after it has been usedfor a number of registrations. Also in connect-ion with the punchingdevices, I have as an ob'ect the provision of means whereby the wor manscard must be placed into the machine in proper manner or else theprinting devices and punchin devices will not operate.

One 0 the preferred modes of use of my invention permits of an entirelynew way of locating time rinting on a wol'kmans time card. In the rstplace it permits of forming the printed impressions close to each otherin rows lengthwise of the card, no matter how far apart in point of timethe impressions may be made. In the next place the time impressions atthe start of a day are formed near the bottom of the card with thesubsequent impressions above it. A card so printed is very easy tohandle in the time-keepers department of the employer, since thetimekeeper must subtract the hour of entrance from the hour of leaving,to arrive at the time spent by the workmen in the shop or office, andthe subtrahend being the underneath figure, and close to the minuendprovides a simple assembly of imprinted time records, for the timekeeping operation.

Another object of my invention is the provision of a novel means forimpressing a card on the type of the time wheels of a recorder of thenature herein involved, whereby the impression is made by a slowpressure rather than a blow, thus saving the machine, makmg a clearerimpression, preserving the rib bons and their shifting devices andgenerally relieving the machine from withstanding the strains of roughblows of a printing hammer, and operating parts.

I accomplish my objects and the advantages above noted particularly, bythat certam construction and arrangement of arts to be hereinafter morespecifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the frame andmechanical parts of a machine illustrative of my invention.

Figure 2 is a right hand side elevation of the same machine.

Figure 3 is a detail side elevation, on a larger scale showing theprintin mechanism, punch and interlocks therewit in normal idleposition.

Figure 4 is a like detail to Figure 3, showng the parts in the act ofprinting and punch- 1ng.

Figure 5 is a detail of the mounting and stop device for the cardoperated lever that frees the printing and unching mechanism.

Figure 6 is a detail ront elevation of the card tray moving device.

Figure 7 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Figure 6.

Figure 8 is a detail of the pawl and ratchet operating element for thecard tray cam.

Figure 9 is a plan view of a typical time card.

Figure 10 is a like view of the card showing several registrations.

Figure 11 is a rear elevation showing the punch carriage and theprinting operator.

Figure 12 is a perspective of the printing platen device.

I have indicated the frame generally at 1,

- and the clock operated shaft at 2. Referring These wheels have typefaces for printing on a card.

. The gn'intz'ng devices Referring primarily to the devices for forminga printed mark from the time wheels on a card, It will be noted that acard recelving tray 9 is provided which slides on a supporting rod 10,in the frame of the mach ne, the tray being movable in vertical posit on(in the example illustrated) through a guide slot (not shown) in the topcover plate 11.

The tray is of usual type, as in all time recorders, except for themotion a plied to 1t, which will be described later, an except for thefact that it is short in length, due to the possibility of using afairly short card.

The'printing is effected by movement of a handle 12, arranged to operatea rock shaft 13 preferably by a heavy spring not shown from the lefthand side of the machine frame, as is common practice in machines ofthis type, since this operation is standard practice and would requireadditional drawings it has not been illustrated. Mounted on the rockshaft 14 (see Figure 11 particularly) is an arm or lever 14, which isformed of two plates having an elbow in them, bent apart at the end intotwo forks 15. Secured slidably on the rods 16 held in a pair of framelugs 16, is a mounting plate 18, which carries a plunger 19. The platen20 is secured in a projection of plate 18 and is adapted to engage thecard, on which printing is to bedone, and forces the card up against thetime wheels. The plate 18 has a pair of arms 17 on its back with cars17' to engage the rods 16 for an additional hearing.

The plunger has a spring 21 around it, which bears against the face ofthe guide plate, and the far end of the plunger is equipped with aslider and a set of nuts. The slider 22 has a pair of studs 23 thereon,projecting laterally, for engagement by the forks, and the spring bearsagainst the inner face of this slider. There are also two nuts 24 on theend of the plunger, to adjust the rearward position of the slider.

The forks at the end of the lever 14 are wide enough to permit ofconsiderable movement of the lever without moving the plunger, therebypermitting ribbon shifting, time wheel centering, and the othermovements normally called for in machines of this type. When the backends of the two forks engage the studs 23, they push the slider inwardlyagainst the spring tension and the spring pushes forward the mountingplate and thrusts the platen against the card.

When the handle 12 is depressed it rocks the arm 12 on shaft 13 whichhas a link 13 to a lever 14 on the'rock shaft 14, and thus moves the arm14 to effect a printing. When the handle is released, a suitable springsuch as is customarily secured to printing handles in time recorders.pulls the assembly of shafts and levers back to starting position,pulling the slider 22 by means of the forward ends of the two forks,back to its starting position. This-slider engages the two stop nuts andpulls back the mounting plate, and the device is ready for anotheroperation.

This form of printing imparts a resilient steady pressure to the card,with little respect to the sudden force with which the operating handleis depressed. It effects a clear printing on the card, and the card isfaced toward the operator instead of being faced away from him. It willbe understood that the printing ribbon passes between the type or timewheels and the card, when the card is in the tray.

As will be described the tray is moved laterally by means of the forceimparted by the time movement for day to da change, and the distance thecard may e passed down into the tray is controlled by a clipped edge ofthe card engaging an abutment. If the edge does not engage the abutment,the printing device will not operate.

Before describing the movement of the abutment, I will first describethe day-by-day shift of the card tray itself.

The card tray movement The tray 9 as has been noted slides on the rod 10of the frame, and it has also mounted on ears 24:, on its lower end,'arod 25, which slides and is guided between rollers 26 mounted on thepunch carriage 50, to be later described. I

Connected to the one end of the tray by means of an adjustable arm 27 isa lever 28, which passes down to the bottom of the machine where it ispivoted to a lug 29. Referring more particularly to Figures 6 and 7, thelever has a stud 30 thereon which slides in a cam groove 31, in the camdrum piece 32. The cam piece is to be moved step by step by a cam andspring device driven from the clock. As the cam moves, the tray is movedfrom left to right, and then back again by a series of steps, controlledby the cam. A spring 33 will pull the lever and tray back 'to startingposition, through a straight return portion of the groove inthe cam (notshown) although the cam may be made with a sharp return at a slightangle, so as to feed the tray to starting positlon by a single stepmovement of the cam at the end of the week.

Since the step by step movements are day by day, the clock is giventwenty-four hours to extend and release the spring, which gives amplepower to accomplish the movements desired.

The cam and spring device and operator for the tray moving cam are shown1n Figures 6 to 8, and also are described in the application for patentof James W. Yates,

' Serial No. 610,521, filed January 3, 1923.

Thus the clock drives the cam 34, which engages at the end of a lever35, mounted in the base of the frame, and pulled against the cam by aspring 36. The lever is gradually pushed down and then released by thecam, and forcibly pulled up again b the spring. The lever carries at itsforward end a pawl carrier 37, pivoted on the shaft 38 of the cam drumand this carrier gradually elevates the pawl 39, to engage the tootheddisc 40 on the drum on which there-will be seven teeth in machines whichdo not print the date and eight teeth in machiner that do so print. Eachtime the pawl is ifted and dropped, a step of movement is imparted tothe cam. The teeth 41 engage a back-throw-preventing spring dog 42.Another lever 43 having a tooth 44, engages in the square faced teeth45, on a disc mounted together with the toothed piece 40. This lever isspring pulled toward the teeth 45 (spring not shown) and when the pawlrises, a pin 46 thereon passes on the outside of a lip 47 on the lever43, but upon the pawl being pulled down, the pin 46 thereon throws outthe lever so that its tooth 44 releases the cam drum to revolve with thepawl.

A detailed description and reference to operation is not believed to becalled for, since the operation is not claimed by me to be novel but isshown in the Yates application heretofore referred to, and claimedtherein.

The pwnch The punch mechanism is mounted on a carriage 50 carried on theshaft 13 and the supporting rod 51. The whole carriage slides along thetwo members 13 and 51, under impulse of the same mechanism that. movesthe card tray, but it is moved to a less degree. In the machine fromwhich the illustrations herein are taken the carriage moves three thirtyseconds of an inch less than the card tray, which it will benoted allowsfor a punching operation that removes a piece three thirty seconds widefrom the card, at each printing operation thereon.

The carriage is moved by means of a lever 52, pivoted at 53 on a lu onthe frame, and at 54 to the carriage. T is lever has a stud 55 thereinwhich engages in the slot 28" in the lever 28. Thus as the lever moves,the movement is imparted to the punch carriage, and the point ofengagement of the stud with the slot in the card tray moving lever,determines the difference in movement of the tray and carriage.

The advantage of moving the carriage with the tray is that the ortion ofthe card to be clipped ofi', provi ing for locating it in differentvertical positions for successive printing operation, is independent ofthe spacing on the card for registrations of the several da s of theweek. If the punch were fixed, tli e result would be that the totalwidth of the card would be cli ped off, after a week of operations, antoward the end of the week there would not be enough strength in thecard to withstand the operation of pushing it down a ainst the stop thatco-operates with the c ipped edge of the card. Otherwise the card wouldhave to be made much wider than the printing columns thereon, in orderto rovide for extra material to ive strength,

an this would render the car s so cumbersome as to be impractical.

The carriage carries a die plate 55 and a rocking punch plate 56,pivoted at 57 thereon. The plate 55' moves in a path just below and justoutside of the lower mouth of the card tray. In Figure 5 is shown mostclearly a bracket 58 mounted on the carriage, and having a lip 59 inwhich is an adjustable stop screw 60. The bracket supports a pin 62, onwhich is a rocking yoke 63. The locating card stop lever 63 is part ofthe yoke and extends forwardly and the spring 64 holds the yoke in placeagainst the bracket. The yoke has also an extension 65, which extendsrearwardly and the balance of the oke is such as to keep the parts inthe position of Figure 3. The spring 64 frictionally holds the lever 63"in any position to which it is moved, so that when a card is pushed downit can be released and the same hand used for operating the handle 12.

The forward end of the lever 63" has a pawl 65 thereon, and theforwardtip is positioned to engage the card edge, and thus the card depressesthe lever, until it hits the stop 70. When the card is removed the leveris moved back to the position of Figure 3, as explained below.

The punch plate has a blade or cutter 56, which is as wide as the totalspace on the card which can be clipped in operations extending over theperiod of the card tray movement, which in the machine here described,will be seven times three thirty seconds of an inch. The one edge of thecutter 56 overhangs the card engaging end of the locating stop lever63", so as to cut away the card a definite amount directly above thelever.

To rock the punch carrier, the arm 12" on the shaft 51 is duplicated at12, at the side of the machine, and the two arms carry a rod 67. Whenthe lever 14 is rocked by means of the operating handle of the machine,the link 13 pulls over the arms 12*, which swings the rod 67 to contactwith the punch carrier in any of its positions and rock it forwardly topunch a card located between it and the die late.

The views in Figures 3 and 4 are from'the right hand side of the machineof Figure 1. The position of the card with relation to the stop lever 63will be controlled by the relative motion of the tra and the carriage 50of the punch and sto evice, and also by the amount of card e ge clippedaway by previous operations. I

The punch holder 56" has a pin thereon which moves in a path to engagethe pawl 65 on the locating lever 63, so that when a card has moved thelever 63 down, and holds it there, the pin 70 will pass under the pawl,by the rocking of the pawl 65". An ear 71 on the stop lever prevents thepawl from rocking in the other direction, however, so that when thepunch holder returns, the pin 70 will engage the lower end of the pawland push up the stop lever, ready for another operation. The punch has abracket 7 2 thereon, which extends around the rod 67 that actuates thepunch, thereby returning the punch with the return of the rod, throughthe spring pulling back to starting position, the shaft 13.

The back end of the stop lever device, marked 65, lies with its end adacent a yoke 7 3 mounted on a cross rod of the frame. This yoke 7 3 hasa rearwardly extending arm 74, which carries a stud 75, extendinglaterally therefrom.

Mounted on the lever device 14 of the pr nting portion of the machine isa piece having an end 7 5 which is curved on its edge and has a notch 76therein. A. spring 77 ulls the yoke to a position keeping the stud onthe top surface of the part 7 5, and forcing the stud into thenotch, assoon as the printing lever is moved and before it accomplishes aprinting.

When the stop lever s moved with its rear end upwardly by a card forceddown against its front end until it hits the ad ustable stop screw, therear end of the lever device will lie in the path of the yoke andprevent the stud thereon from following the notched piece 7 5 As aresult of this, unless the locating stop lever device is energized byplacing a card down against it sufiicientl to rock it as far as it willgo, the printing evice will not operate, and the punch device will notoperate either.

The operation It will not be necessary to detail the entire operationand every movement as this has been touched upon in connection with thedescription of each part.

The card is shown in Figures 9 and 10, the latter being a partly printedcard. The card is formed with identification portion 80, at the top, andwith printed lines 81 for days of the week extending through the centralportion. This area of the card can be quite short, since no matter whattime elapses between registrations in any one day, the succeedingregistrations will be next to each other in the vertical week daycolumn.

The lower portion of the card (see Figure line 83 will permit the cardtobe reversed and used for another week.

The central area 84 between the two lines is never punched and remainsfor strength.

When the card is filled or the period for which it was used finished,the entire bottom of the card is cut oil by a cutter provided with themachine leaving asmall, neat card for filing.

When the card is inserted at the first of a week, the left hand edge ofthe card will hit the locating stop lever portion 63 and depress it. Theoperation of the handle 12 will then rock the punch forward and cut ofia small corner of the card, three thirty seconds of an inch wide, and ashigh as desired, preferably the height necessary to clear the firstprinting mark by the next one to follow. The card is then removed, andall of the parts will be reset for another operation.

When the same card is inserted again on the same day, the notch firstcut away will be the part which registers with the stop lever, and thiswill result in the card being a little lower when thrust homesufliciently to release the printing devices.

The printed time mark on the card made in the second operation will bejust over the first mark, and the top of the upper notch will be at 85on the card (see Figure 10).

If the card was not thrust home, nothing would have occurred at eitherof the operations now detailed.

Suppose the operator registers in on Tuesday. The tray will have movedconsiderably, so as to change from column 86 for Monday to column 87 forTuesday (Figure 10). The printing will again be at the bottom of thecolumn, but the punch and stop will have moved only three thirty secondsof an inch, so that the notch cut above the locating or st? lever, willbe as at 88 in Figure 10.

uppose now the operator does not register in until Thursday, the punchwill cut oil a strip along the bottom of the card, twelve thirty secondsof an inch long and the depth of one printing operation.

It will be noted that the operator places his card in the tray faceforward, and that the printing is done starting from the bottom andprogressively upward. This arranges the printed time marks in an easyway to facilitate subtraction.

It should not be concluded that the dimensionsfigiven of the notcheshave any particular signi cance except to make it simple to describe theoperation. It is obvious that this will be controlled in whatever wayappears to be practical to the builder of the machine. Also variousother particular mechanisms could be adopted for accomplishing theseveral functions of the machine. The movement of the tray and punchcarriage need not be driven by clock wer alone, as a mode of powerenergized y the printing handle mani ulation with clock controlled sto swoul be-eifective, or a motor controlled y the clock would be effective.

It is believed to be ap arent that the mechanism described accomp ishesthe objects originally stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a time recorder having printing means, a movable card tray theposition of which with relation to the printing means is timecontrolled, and a card punch and locater device for engaging the card,means for moving said card punch and locater device with relation to theprinting mechanism and the card tray under time control. 7

2. In a time recorder having printing means, a movable card tray theposition of which with relation to the printing means is timecontrolled, and a card punch and locater device for engaging the card,means for moving said card punch and locater device with relation to theprinting mechanism under time control, said punch and locater movementbeing less than the tray movement and in the same direction.

3. In a time recorder having printing means, a movable card tray theposition of which with relation to the printing means is timecontrolled, and a card punch and locater device for engagin the card,means for mov in said card punc and locater device with re ation to theprinting mechanism and the card tray under time control, said punchbeing adapted to clip the exposed edge of the card, and the locatercomprising an element to engage the card directly below the punchingline thereof.

4. In a time recorder having printing means, a movable card tray theposition of which with relation to the printing means is timecontrolled, and a card punch and locater device for engaging the card,means for moving said card punch and locater device with relation to theprinting mechanism and the card tray under time control, and the punchbeing at least as wide as the difference between the total timecontrolled tray movement and the total time controlled punch move ment.1;

5. In atime recorder the combination with time wheels, a'movable cardtray, and an abutment to engage the card when in the tray to limit itsmovement at right angles to the movement of the tray, time controlledmeans for actuating the tray, and a punch co-operating with the abutmentto remove portions of the card that engage the abutment to therebycontrol the movement of the card against the abutment, and timecontrolled means for moving the punch, and the abutment.

6. In a time recorder having printing means, a-movable card tray theposition of which with relation to the printing means is timecontrolled, and a card punch and locater device for engaging the card,means for moving said card punch and locater device with relation to theprinting mechanism and the card tray under time control, means forenergizing manually the printing means, and a stop element for theprinting means arranged to enforce an operation of the locater beforethe printing means can be operated.

7. In a time recorder having printing means, a moving card tray theposition of which with relation to the printing means is timecontrolled, and a card punch and co-operative locating element forcontrolling the position of insertion of the card into the tray, saidlocating element operatively arranged to result in blocking the movementof the printing means against effecting a printing operation until thelocating element is actuated by insertion of a card.

8. In combination a manually movable member for eifecting printingoperations in a time recorder, a locating member for a card insertedinto the recorder, a stop adapted normally to retain the movable memberagainst operation, said locating member having means for preventing theoperation of the stop, when a card has been moved against the member.

9. In combination a manually movable member for effecting printingoperations in a time recorder, a locating member for a card insertedinto the recorder, a stop adapted normally to retain the movable memberagainst operation, said locating member having means for preventing theoperation of the stop, when a card has been moved against the member,said means being ineffective to bring about a release of the stop untilthe card has been employed to move the locating member to the limit ofits movement. 7

10. In combination a manually movable member for effecting printingoperations in a time recorder, a locating member for a card insertedinto the recorder, a stop adapted normally to retain the movable memberagainst operation, said locating member having means for preventing theoperation of the stop, when a card has been moved against the member,said means being inefiective to bring about a release of the stop untilthe card has been employed to move the locating member to the limit ofits movement, and an adjustable member for re ulating the length ofmovement of the said locating member.

11. In combination in a time recorder, having a movable card tray, and aprinting mechanism with relation to which it moves, a carriage means formoving it with the tray, but less than the tray, a punch on saidcarriage, a locating element to engage the card also on said carriage,and connections from the printing mechanism to operate the punch in anyposition thereof.

12. In combination in a time recorder a movable card tray, printingwheels with relation to which it moves, a carriage also movable withthetray but less than the tray, a

punch and locating element on said carriage, and means for moving thetray and carriage comprising a lever connected to the tray, the movementof the lever being time controlled, another lever connected to thecarriage, connected'to a fixed point, and also connected to the firstnamed lever, whereby movement of the first named lever moves thecarriage and the tray.

13. A punch and locater device comprising a support, a rocking punchcarrier having a punch thereon, a lever pivoted on the support, andhaving a nose lying under theedge of the punch, to act as a card stop,said lever being normally held upwardly, a pawl on the lever free torock in a forward direction but not rearwardly, a stud on the rockingpunch carrier adapted to ride under the pawl when the carrier isactuated and to lift the pawl when the carrier is returned to startingposition, whereby the lever is lifted when the punch carrier isretracted.

14. A card clipping and locating element,

and a manual printing operation lever in time recorders, said locatingelement comprising a lever, means operated by the lever to control theoperability of the pritning operation lever, said means adapted to comeinto play only when the lever is fully depressed as by means of a card.

15. A card clipping and locating element, and a printing operatlon leverin time recorders, said locating element comprising a lever, meansoperated by the lever to control the operability of the printingoperation lever, said means adapted to come into play only when thelever is fully depressed as by means of a card, and means for retainingthe said lever in position after being depressed, thereby relieving theoperator from holding the card against it. a

16. In a time recorder the combination of printing means, a movable cardtray the position of which with relation to the printing means is timecontrolled, a card punch and co-opcrative locating element forcontrolling the position of insertion of the card into the tray, andsaid locating element operatively arranged to result in b ocking themovement of the printing means against efi'ecting a printing operationuntil the locating ele ment is actuated by insertion of a card, and saidlocating element havin means forholding it in position to whic it ismoved by the card.

17 In combination a movable member for effecting printing operations ina time recorder, a locating member for a card inserted into therecorder, a stop adapted normally ranged as to move the to retain themovable member against operation, said locating member having means forpreventing the operation of the stop, when a card has been movedagainst, the member, and said locating element having means for holdingit in position to which it is moved by the card.

18. In combination a movable member for effecting printing operations ina time recorder, a locating member for a card inserted into therecorder, a stop adaptednormally to retain the movable member againstoperation, said locating member having means for preventing theoperation of the stop when a card has been moved against the member,said means being inefi'ective to bring about a release of the stop untilthe card has been employed to move the locating member to the limit ofits movement, and means for holding the locating member frictionally soas to retain it in its card actuated position.

19. A card clipping and locating element I in time recorders, and aprinting operation lever, said element having a cutter for re-.

moving portions of a card, said locating part adapted to enterpreviously cut portion 0 the card to locate the same, and meansrequiring a full engagement of the locating part with the card beforethe printing operation lever can be efiectively energized, means on thecutter for moving the locating part to starting position upon returnfrom its cutting movement, said locating element being frictionally heldin any position to which it is moved.

20. In a time recorder, printing means, a

card tray adjustable relative to the printing.

means, a card clipper and co-operative abutment for locating the cardwith relation to successive printing operations and means for moving theclipper and abutment in the same direction as the card tray.

21. In a time recorder, printing means and a lateral shifting card tray,a punch, and cooperative abutment for location of a card in the tray,and operative connection between the tray and the punch and abutment soarranged as to move the punch and abutment laterally with the tray butthrough a shorter path.

22. In a time recorder, printing means and a lateral shifting card tray,a punch and cooperative abutment for location of a card in the tray andoperative connection between the tray and the punch and abutment soarpunch and abutment laterally with the tray.

23. In a time recorder, printing means and a lateral shifting cardtray,a punch, and cooperative abutment for location of a card in the tray andoperative connection between the tray and the punch and abutment, tomove the punch and abutment laterally with the tray, said meanscomprising a carriage for the punch and abutment, a lever connector tothe carriage, to the tray, and to a fixed portion of the recorder.

24. In a time recorder, printing means and a lateral shifting card tray,a punch, and cooperative abutment for location of a card in the tray,and operative connection between the tray and the punch and abutment, tomove the punch and abutment laterally with the tray but through ashorter path, said punch and abutment having a lateral dimension forcard engagement equal at least to the difference in total lateralmovement of the tray and the said punch and abutment.

25. In a time recorder, a printing element, a card retaining element,one of said elements movable to change the position of printedimpressions on a card in one direction, and means for locating a card inchanged positions at right angles to said direction comprising a punchand cooperative abutment and means for moving said punch and abutment,along with the movable one of said elements.

26. In a time recorder, a printing element, a card retaining element,one of said elements movable to change the position of printedimpressions on a card in one direction, and means for locating a card inchanged positions at right angles to said direction comprising a punchand cooperative abut-ment and means for moving said punch and abutment,along with the movable one of said elements, said means arranged to movethe punch and abutment through a lesser distance than said movableelement.

27 In a time recorder, means for printing on a card in successivecolumns, and means for locating the card for successive printings ineach column, comprising a card cutting member and cooperative cardabutment ancLmeans whereby the member and abutment'are controlled totraverse a total less distance across the card than the total of saidcolumns.

ELMER G. STREGKFUSS.

